Monday, February 23, 2015

Hi Friends! Today we will make a scrapbook page! You only need watercolor crayons, white cardstock or hot press watercolor paper, stamps (Bugz set and background) and a journal stencil. The stencil and stamps are from Lost Coast Designs. You will also want a black pen and colored pencils if desired. You can make this an art journal page too if you like but if you are making a scrapbook page you will also need photos and adhesive!

Watch how easy it is to make this!

The video is a bit long, I almost feel compelled to apologize for it but I have had so many people tell me how much they enjoy the longer videos because it feels like they are crafting with a friend. Awww, thanks guys:) That makes me so happy! I guess it is nice to have a mix of both:) I hope you try some artsy limited supply scrapbook or journal pages. You will be surprised at what you can do with just a few things! Thanks for stopping by and til next time happy crafting!

Friday, February 13, 2015

Yvonne here with a birthday card for my mother. A few months ago i made this pink background and she really loves it. I promissed her to make a card for her and this little cat is meowing a song for her ;-)

Thursday, February 12, 2015

I really enjoyed the play on words here with simpli .... 'city'. The thought behind this page is that life is so busy, over populated and we are over stimulated, its good to go back to the simple things in life and enjoy them :)

My page is also simply constructed, I masked and stamped the cityscape in the three colors, overlapping them slightly. I used yellow ink as a sort of watercolor wash effect for the sky. The page is edged in brown distress ink. I created an additional page just like this one and stamped my individual letters and cut them out. They are also lightly sponged around the edge in brown distress ink.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Happy Tuesday Lost Coasters!On January 30th I finally got to share some of my cards that were published in Just Steampunk vol 3featuring Lost Coast Designs stamps and today I'm back with one of the altered game art projects that was published in the same issue ;0) Today's project is an altered game art piece sure to make your bill paying time fly by ;0)

YAY I made the cover! ;0)

I used Lost Coast's Steampunk style Time Flies stamp and altered a Chekit game tile and a wooden clothes peg to make a fun altered game art envelope holder!

I'm continuing to share more detail on each of my published projects over the next few weeks on my blog so if you'd like more info please bookmark, LeighSBDesigns, and stop by often ;0)

Also, I'd like to let everyone know that DominoART's challenges have started again and you can check out Feb's current challenge here!

Saturday, February 7, 2015

As a base I used a gelli print. I used white ink, a stencil and a blending tool to add the white dots. The stamp is called "Serenity Diva" and she was stamped on the gelliprint and on a separate piece of card stock. I coloured the image on the white card and cut out everything apart from the wiggly lines next to the head. I then adhered the cut out image on top of the one on the cardpanel. I added some sequens and some seed beads and then matted the panel on some black card stock after which I glued the whole thing on a white card base.

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

I created this postcard using the image Showgirls, for the new challenge, 'Girl, Girls, Girls' that began yesterday.

I wanted to show the wonderful stage presence of the can can dancers. I was fortunate enough to see a live show a few years ago in Dawson City in the Yukon, Canada. It was really mesmerizing and I remember a lot of red. Which I think influenced the creation of this project, with the lavish red curtains.

The showgirls were stamped and clear embossed, then I masked their faces and stamped two more times, slightly to the left side. I wanted to give the feeling of motion and shadows from the spot lights.

I loved this play on words, this is an unknown quote I found on Pinterest, obviously only one 'can' in the original :)

Thanks for stopping by, and why not go and check out our challenge. Nikki x

Monday, February 2, 2015

Hello dear Lost Coast fans! It's the first Monday of the month again so it's time for our new challenge. It's to bad but there were not enough participants to choose a winner from for last month's challenge but we hope that we will have 10 or more participants this month so we can give away a $10.00 gift certificate again.

Please make some time to show us one of your beautiful pieces of

artwork using Lost Coast stamps.

Now the ninth Challenge: Girls, girls, girls

Use your creativity to make a a tag with the great stamps ofLost Coast Design OR Carmen's Veranda. Since Linda is selling these stamps too there where questions if they also can use Carmen's Veranda stamps at the Challenges, of course: on big stamping Family. To inspire you we made some cards, Yvonne made: